The attack the compromised DigiNotar’s certificate authority infrastructure is much worse than originally thought: There were 531 fraudulent certificates that targeted the web sites of not just Google, but popular destinations such as Twitter, WordPress, Yahoo and Facebook as well as the sites of secret services. Mozilla is taking the lead in criticizing DigiNotar and...Read More
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Although it easily could have turned into a random social media site lost among a sea of similar speedy blogging platforms that have emerged in the last year, Tumblr hasn’t tumbled. In fact, Tumblr is nearing the 10 billionth-post mark as it now retains almost 28 million blogs and sees over 37 million posts a...Read More
Besides the fraudulent security certificates Dutch authority DigiNotar issued for Google.com, more were made for Yahoo.com, Mozilla.org, torproject.org, wordpress.org and an Iranian blogging platform, Baladin, according to a Dutch report. The report [Google Translate version] does not state how it came across the information that the additional sites were targeted, and neither DigiNotar, its parent,...Read More
Many people do not want to admit to their weaknesses, and sometimes they find ways to make light of their foibles–or at least enjoy a comedian’s light satire. Jeff Foxworthy once joked how being a redneck means “a glorious absence of sophistication.†So imagine how refreshing admitting to a lack of glorious WordPress sophistication can...Read More
There’s been a lot of buzz lately about mobile payments technologies like Square, a little white box that plugs into an iPhone and essentially turns it into a credit card processing tool. Small business owners and entrepreneurs like these technologies because it lets them bypass the high costs of processing credit card payments through traditional...Read More
Matt Mullenweg, founder of the WordPress web publishing platform, took the stage at the recent San Francisco WordCamp event to share the state of the WordPress union. A key figure: WordPress is now powering 14.7% of the top one million global websites. There’s more. You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby A few more impressive stats: 22 out...Read More
David Mercer How to design a great landing page for WordPress SEO marketing with hosted WordPress blogs Business blogging 101: How to deal with public reactions to your content There are three main aspects to any good marketing campaign: Drive traffic Convert traffic Analyze refine Obviously, without the ability to get eyeballs on your content,...Read More
In the same week that WordPress announced that the blogging platform powers 14.7 percent of the top million websites worldwide, WordPress also sent out an email to users asking them to change their passwords, amid a lax in security. The email pointed to a security fix that has caused user passwords to WordPress.com to be...Read More
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